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Financial planning

David Haintz sees himself as one of the younger breed in the Australian financial planning industry – something he says is reflected in the approach Haintz Financial Serv...

Financial planning

We are a financial planning practice that has developed from the old style insurance company. Because of this, we have about 4,000 clients spread all over Australia. Unde...

Financial planning

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has exited the financial planning arena, selling its Clearview business to MBF Australia for around $220 million plus an additional earn-o...

Financial planning

The number of complaint schemes operating in the industry is set to shrink. John Wilkinson reports from the inaugural Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) confere...

Life/Risk

By structuring the ownership of personal life insurance policies via superannuation, it may be possible to fund such premiums from pre-tax earnings, says Andrew Lowe....

Financial planning

How well do the Australian and New Zealand life insurance markets stack up against each other? Mike Taylor investigates....

Financial planning

The life insurance industry had gone off the rails. But, as Jason Spits writes, fortunes are slowly turning as it returns to its core competencies....

Financial planning

Despite market uncertainty rattling more than a few in the financial services food chain, the Aon group is not content to join the pack of sharemarket watchers, writes Ka...

Financial planning

As an investment vehicle, pooled development funds (PDF) are not new. However, changes in the taxation of these funds has resulted in their revival. John Wilkinson report...

Financial planning

AMP Henderson Global Investors head of retail distribution Krystyna Weston has signalled her intention to leave the group and set up her own business after moving into a ...

Financial planning

Q: Under financial services reform (FSR) I am afraid that I cannot afford some of my clients, or more correctly, they cannot afford me. I have heard conflicting comments ...

Financial planning

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group Survey highlights the enormous impact a National Australia Bank takeover of AMP would have on the financial services industry. Mik...

Financial planning

The financial planning arm of Mercer HR Consulting - Mercer Financial Planning - is executing a new business strategy to enable it to offer a full suite of financial serv...

Financial planning

Veteran risk adviser John Zwiers says the great trouble with the financial planning industry is that it pays lip service to the risk industry – and it has got to stop....

Financial planning

Over the past year, the Tower group has redirected its overall strategy and returned its focus to the risk end of the market. Lucie Beaman looks at what this means for th...

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